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British Studies December 3, 2019

The Game of Love in Georgian England

Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture

Sally Holloway

Hosted by Jessica Clark
What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture? In her new book, The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture (Oxford University …
British Studies October 9, 2018

Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

Charlotte Greenhalgh

Hosted by Jessica Clark
What role did elderly Britons have in shaping the twentieth-century welfare state? In her new book, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain (University of California Press, 2018), Charlotte Greenhalgh offers a compelling …
British Studies June 26, 2018

Indian Suffragettes

Female Identities and Transnational Networks

Sumita Mukherjee

Hosted by Jessica Clark
In her new book, Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks(Oxford University Press, 2018), Sumita Mukherjee highlights the centrality of Indian women in the fight for the vote in the …
British Studies April 24, 2018

Barbed-Wire Imperialism

Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903

Aidan Forth

Hosted by Jessica Clark
In his new book, Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (University of California Press, 2017), Aidan Forth employs a comparative and trans-imperial approach to map a global network of …
British Studies April 10, 2018

Consumptive Chic

A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

Carolyn Day

Hosted by Jessica Clark
In her new book, Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (Bloomsbury, 2017), Carolyn Day tracks the relationship between dress, appearance, and tuberculosis in the eighteenth and early …